talk about your backfire, this guy tried to raise prices by scaring his employees thinking he would find support but as life would have it it ain't that kinda party, he brought everything but consideration for his employees to the 2012 bash business fairness is rapidly becoming the rule of the people, want our business get a heart and soul.OK, that’s fair. We’ll go with: the general population still likes Papa John’s but with adults 18+ their reputation dropped from 32 to 4. Parse that as you will.In what right-leaning CEO’s clearly thought was a good move, a move designed to communicate a coded message to customers and shareholders that they were good conservative businessmen who were not going to cow-tow to Barack Obama and the Democrat’s healthcare agenda,companies like Papa John’s, Applebee’s and Denny’s made a big show of how they’d have to raise prices, cut employee hours, cut wages, and potentially lose jobs if Obama won the election and Obamacare was enforced.Conservatives applauded, the rest of the country talked about boycotts
The take-away is clear: as Applebee’s (their numbers dropped from 35 to 5), Denny’s (10 down to 0) and Papa John’s have discovered, publicly bashing healthcare reform that is now the law of the land and putting the weight of that disagreement on the backs of those working for you is a prescription for failure. Whether Papa John’s and its lip-flapping CEO can fully recover their reputation remains to be seen.
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